Welcome to KA4RRU

These are some of the things that are going on at the KA4RRU station!


2/2009 Did the WPX RTTY contest Multi Multi.

9/27 -28/2008 Did the CQWW RTTY contest Multi Multi - did better then last year .. and that is at the very bottom of the cycle!


9/20/2008 Fixed all of the beverages today!


9/14/2008 K3UI and I replaced baluns on the two 204BA's and installed new coax for each antenna. Hooked up the new stack match!


8/31/2008 K3UI and I replaced the 80 meter dipole at 80. Old one was up since 1994!.


8/2008 cleaned up brush around the 90 and 70 foot tower.


9/22/2007 Put up the 5 el 10 meter beam at 50 feet on the 90 foot tower.


9/9/2007 Put up the 2nd 204ba at 35 feet on the 70 foot tower.


9/03/2007 K3ui and I put up the Cushcraft 4 el 15 meter beam at 30 feet (pointed south) on the HBX tower.


9/01/2007 K3ui and I put up the Hygain 5 el 15 meter beam top of 48 foot HBX tower.


8/26/2007 Replaced coax for the KLM 40 meter dipole. Now working FB.


7/29/2007 K3UI and I took down the th6 that was at 60 feet on the 90 foot tower.


7/28/2007 K3UI and I took down the th6 that was at 30 feet on the 90 foot tower.


7/16, 17, 18, 2007 Cut down trees and cleared out growth around the HBX tower so that the th6 can be taken off the tower, and other antenna put up.


7/15/2007 Got the "new" Hy-Gain 204ba. Thanks Corby for the transportation from NC.!!!


7/7/2007 K3UI and I took down the 4 el cushcraft 15 meter monobander and lowered the lower guys down to 30 feet on the 70 foot tower.


7/01/2007 Started clearing out growth around the 70 and 90 foot towers so that some antenna work can be done this summer.



5/30/2007 Thank you Don (AA5AU) for fixing the rttycontesting.com "records and rules" page to include the missing ka4rru M/M CQWW RTTY score. As you might remember our score was left out of the results in CQ. Just emailed Don yesterday and he fixed it already.


5/29/2007 KA4RRU/B back up on the air on 28.219


Page updated on 07/04/2009